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This guide contains 14 lessons that teach motion-graphics professionals, visual effects artists, web designers, and film and video professionals the basic and advanced features of Adobe After Effects CS6 for use in compositing, animation, and effects for film, video, DVD, and web content. Presented in a progressive order and a design-oriented rather than feature-oriented sequence, each lesson has step-by-step instructions for completing a specific project. They cover installation and getting started, understanding the workflow, creating a basic animation using effects and presets, animating text, working with shape layers, animating a multimedia presentation, animating layers, working with masks, distorting objects with the puppet tools, performing color correction, building 3D objects, using 3D features, working with the 3D camera tracker, advanced editing techniques, and rendering and outputting. The DVD-ROM contains lesson files, stock video footage, and links to online resources. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CS6 choose Adobe After Effects CS6 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in After Effects CS6 and how to work efficiently and deliver in the widest possible range of media types. In addition to learning the key elements of the After Effects interface, this completely revised CS6 edition covers new features, including the Global Performance Cache, 3D Camera Tracker, Ray-traced 3D rendering, variable mask feathering, tight integration with Adobe Illustrator, rolling shutter repair, Pro Import files from Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro 7, improved mocha AE workflow, and more. “The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” –Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
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